Q3 - week 7

Day 1
Monday 02/23/15

Essential Question:  How is this a Thunderdome?

CCSS:  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5 - Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6 - Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

DO NOW:  turn in HW - standards in black bin and essay (staple rubric to back) in gray bin
1.  Weekly
2.  V25 - Amorphous, astute, bland, candor, condone, cryptic, diabolical, eccentric, ennui, façade, jubilant, malevolent, mercurial, parody, perverse, chicanery, choleric, churlish, circuitous, clandestine
3.  Key Found - back to MC - "Good and evil" - slow torture style - my favorite!  HA!  The Thunderdome may yet kick into gear . . .

HW = MC "Liberty and Authority" - Questions 27-52 - Due Tue. 02/24/15


Day 2
Tuesday 02/24/15

Essential Question:  How is this a Thunderdome?

CCSS:  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5 - Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6 - Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

DO NOW:  turn in HW - Name on Packet and Bubble sheet - bubble sheet inside of MC packet
1.  MC - "Good and evil" slow torture continues until end
2.  MC - "Liberty and Authority" slow torture begins


HW = MC - Questions 1 - 26 - Due Thu. 02/26/15
HW = CCSS in own words - Due Thu. 02/26/15


Day 3
Thursday 02/26/15

Essential Question:  How is this a Thunderdome?

CCSS:  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5 - Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6 - Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

DO NOW:  
     A.  turn in HW - Name on Packet and Bubble sheet - bubble sheet inside of MC packet in gray bin
     B. turn in HW - CCSS in black bin
1.  In-class essays ("Utah, get me two")

HW = I am still meditating on this . . .

Q3 - week 6

Day 1
Tuesday 02/17/15

Essential Question:  How is this a Thunderdome?

CCSS - click here for writing standards - this time put 11.12.2 a-f "Informative/Explanatory" in your own words - Due Day 2 

1.  Turn in HW - What hw? 2 HW free weekends in a row?  What kind of Thunderdome are you running here Longo?
2.  Weekly
3.  MC on hold
4.  V22 - Ambiguous, austere, bequeath, bucolic, conciliatory, devious, dogmatic, enmity, extraneous, frivolous, untenable, virulent, belligerent, charlatan, consternation, bravura, bumptious, cabal, cajole, calliope
5.  Swift reemerges - cause/effect 
      -  analyze his  
      -  discuss current campus c/e 
      -  write your own - due Friday



Day 2
Thursday 02/19/15

Essential Question:  How is this a Thunderdome?

CCSS - click here for writing standards - this time put 11.12.4, 11.12.5, and 11.12.6 "Production and Distribution" in your own words - Due Day 3

1.  Turn in HW
2.  In-class essay - oooh - will it be an Analysis, DCQ, or a Synthesis?


Day 3
Friday 02/20/15

Essential Question:  How is this a Thunderdome?

CCSS - click here for writing standards - complete the rest 11.12.7 - 11.12.10 with all subsections - Due 02/23/15

1.  Turn in HW - Standards in black bin 
2.  Turn in HW - Essay - no rubric - in gray bin
3.  V22
4.  HW - complete the standards - Due 02/23/15
5.  HW - wait for it. . .

CONGRATULATIONS

Well done MIL participants and weekend sports participants!

Rave reviews to cast and crew of "Lizzie Borden"

Corrals

Q3 - week 5

Day 1
Monday 02/09/15
Essential Question:  What skills are necessary to CRUSH the SBAC, the ACT, the SAT, the AP and all other college placement exams?
See all of these standards to confirm you are CRUSH ready!

1.  Weekly + Corrals
2.  Back to AP Exam theory --- then Swift 
3. Remember, you brought this on yourself for not remembering:
V23  Garrulous, gluttonous, haughty, impetuous, incriminate, insurgent, judicious, listless, notorious, pensive, convivial, deleterious, depose, fallow, hyperbole, callow, canon, capitulate, capricious, careen 
V24 - Precarious, pungent, rebuttal, residual, resigned, servile, succinct, tepid, veracity, affirmation, iconoclast, ignominious, impecunious, impute, insatiable, categorical, catharsis, caveat emptor, chagrin, chary

HW = DCQ Due Day 3 - tbd in class


Day 2
Tuesday 02/10/15
Essential Question:  What skills are necessary to CRUSH the SBAC, the ACT, the SAT, the AP and all other college placement exams?
See all of these standards to confirm you are CRUSH ready!

1.  SBAC Part One
HW = audible will be called

Day 3
Thursday 02/12/15
Essential Question:  What skills are necessary to CRUSH the SBAC, the ACT, the SAT, the AP and all other college placement exams?
See all of these standards to confirm you are CRUSH ready!

1.  V23-V24
2.  SBAC Part Two

HW = audible will be called